189 Sick Again

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189 Jam session.

Writing Music: When jamming, I pick a couple chords - G#min (i) and Emaj (VI), following them around the neck. Arpeggios, triplets, pentatonics, whatever I can swing. Only variation is the F#maj (VII) with the Emaj. (VI). Mostly i-VI-i-VI-VII-VI-VII-VI-V with the D# (V) only used sparingly. This i-V combo is notorious-so used sparingly. The outcome is kinda unique... always liked this progression. And that's what it is, a progression, thrown over a drum line, and a one time jam session after that. It's fun making quick tunes. I'm not actually sick- but the original jam was called 'Sickness' and this is that progression.

Playing Lead Guitar: Knowing what chord is when, this is helpful when doing the leads. This way I can top off the chord with some singing notes. Thats the concept anyway. But knowing the progression, the i-VII-VI-V for example is very helpful to create a lead line that will infact sing along with the rest of the music going on. Needless to say, when triplicating notes it becomes redundant where you are flying through a scale.

Warm-Up: This 98bpm jam is a practice of triplicating scales, and the origin of this jam is to warm-up at that speed. It's kinda slow, but control is what it's all about.

Recording the audio: Started with ADA MP-1 direct, very high gain for background track. Then used a Shure SM57 to mic one of the Eminence Texas Heat cabinets for the 1st two measures, used 2 more times in the background. Then on 'warm' channel of Orange AD30 recorded the leads. Nice thing is the Orange 'has to be' cranked into the SM57, so it was working at 50-75% the whole time. For effects, the backing has stereo delay, the lead has Eventide Stereo Delay at -5db, with a pre-verb, ART Multiverb at 71%. The reverb at 71% is uncommon for any of my high gain recordings, but with the cab mic'd in the closet, it came out GREAT.

Equipment Check:
Software- Fruity Loops, Audacity, ezDrummer, Goldwave, Adobe Premiere. WAV audio format, MP2 video format.

Hardware- Orange AD30, ADA MP-1, Eventide Harmonizer DSP7500, ART Multiverb, Eminence Texas Heat, Shure SM57

DAW- Dual Xeon 2.8, 2Gb DDR, Pinnacle DC2000 Dolphin-II, Adaptec 29320, Adaptec 2200s RAID, Maxtor U320 drives, Supermicro Backplane

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Music

Tags:

• Sick
• Again

[1993SG]

Thanks for the breakdown/description of your gear and how you recorded this track. It sounds really good. I am in the market for an ADA MP-1(maybe a line 6 pod 2.0). Thanks again.

[cum2roll]

What is goldwave? I'm getting ready to buy a drum program, probably EZ drummer. But no one knows sh7t. I know more than the morons at guitar center

[lovegamesjamez]

haha, okie thats fair!

its just, i dont have cubase anymore, which i used to use exd with, but i still have ezd, and audacity!i dowloaded the vst thing for aud, so ill see how that goes :).

[lovegamesjamez]

what program did you use ezdrummer with?

can you use it with audaicty?

nice one¬

[LeoPalmuti]

hey man!! thanks for the coment my video!! where you from?!?! i'am from Brazil! Great orange Head!! crazy sound!!